The conference takes place in KAP 209. We will be streaming the keynotes on YouTube. If you would like to receive the links to the streams, please subscribe to our newsletter. We will send them out shortly before the keynotes.
You can download the conference’s booklet here including all the abstracts and additional information about the event.
Wednesday, 9 November 2022
Pre-conference Programme
2.00 Guided Walking Tour
7.00 Pre-Conference Dinner (Krone)
Rolling Exhibition Space in Kloster (set up on 9th, open across 10th and 11th )
Activating Space | Prehending the City (installation) by Rémy Bocquillon (KU Eichstätt)
Thursday, 10 November 2022
9.00 Welcome coffee and opening remarks
9.30 Tim Cresswell (University of Edinburgh): On Routes
11.00 Coffee Break
11.20 Panel 1: Sensing and Storying
Craig Melhoff (University of Regina)
Environmental Sensemaking and the Body as Cartographic Organizing Principle in the Poetry of the London Underground
Ian Grosz (University of Aberdeen)
On Place and Time: An Absent Method – A Creative-Critical Approach to Practicing Place
Neha Meena (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Narratives of Migration and Placemaking: Pakistani Hindu Settlements in Jodhpur, Rajasthan
1.00 Lunch
2.30 Panel 2: Contestations
Shurouq Ibrahim (Ohio State University)
Circular Hybridity: Reconciling Identity and Place in Randa Jarrar’s ‘A Map of Home’
Hanna Sophia Hörl (LMU Munich)
Contested Spatial Distributions and Creative Place-Making in Selected Projects by African American Artists Dread Scott and Theater Gates
Rosa Philipp (KU Eichstätt)
Understanding Territory as Practices of Resistance
Judith Keller (University of Heidelberg)
“Living this struggle and fighting this fight” – Testimonies in Geographical Research on the US Housing Crisis
4.30 Coffee
5.00 Panel 3: Imagining and Creating
Rémy Bocquillon (KU Eichstätt)
Thinking With Sounds: Spatial and Epistemic Configurations
Imen El Bedoui (University of Kairouan)
Toward an Immersive Aesthetic: Virtual Artistic Places as New Site of the Creative
Anthony Raynsford (San Jose State University)
Inventing “Ecotopia”: Experimental Urban Design in 1970s California
7.30 Conference Dinner (Gutmann)
Friday, 11th November 2022
9.00 Welcome coffee
9.15 Antje Kley (Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg): Disruptions in Place and Time in Contemporary US-American Narratives of the End of Life
10.45 Coffee Break
11.00 Panel 4: Productions and Reproductions
Sheila Brannigan (NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon)
The Deferred Gaze and Representations of Unfulfilled Dreams in Christina Fernandez’s Photographic Series Manuela S-t-i-t-c-h-e-d, 1996-2000, and Lavanderia, 2002
Anthony Obst (FU Berlin)
Practicing Democratic Place: The Domestic Workers’ Union in Richard Wright’s ‘Black Hope’
Oğuz Kayır (Bilkent University)
Women In-Between: Mapping the Geopolitics of Diaspora in Women’s Cultural Production
Nele Sawallisch (University of Trier)
Laughing in and out of Place: The Comedy Stage as Practicing Place
1 pm Lunch
2.30 Panel 5: Constructing the City
Emma Patchett (University of Leeds)
When Moving through Places is Criminalised: Vulnerability, Harm and Public Space
Stefanie Wallbraun (University of Heidelberg)
On the Instrumentalization of Public Space by Armed (Counter-)Protests and the Effects on Political Participation
Aylin Güngor (University of Heidelberg)
Performing Race, Performing Place: Negotiating Blackness and the City in ‘Atlanta’
4.30 Wrap Up and Closing Remarks
